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The View Says Jason Aldean’s Song Is About Killing Black People After Sundown

‘Don’t let the sun go down on your ass here’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

HOSTIN: "The other thing is that what I — what was evoked for me, which was, you know, 'You're not going to get out of this town,' are those sundown areas."
GOLDBERG: "Yeah, don't let the sun go down on your ass here."
HOSTIN: "Because there were times when black people — my mother is in the audience today. Thank you, for coming. (Applause) And my mother and father, because they were an interracial couple, were run out of South Carolina by the KKK. And my father is still scarred from that experience and you are still scarred from that experience, so don't — "
GOLDBERG: "We're all still scarred from that experience."
HOSTIN: "So don’t tell me not only was he aware of what he was doing by using that imagery. He embraces that imagery."

(via NewsBusters)

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